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Epistemological (knowledge) fallacies

Various fallacies and misconceptions about what one knows or can know, and what constitutes knowledge in the first place.

Induction

Fallacy of eliminative induction / Sherlock-Holmes Fallacy

A probable explanation that was established by a process of inductive elimination is (erroneously) understood as deductively true.

Ecological fallacy

A fallacious inference in which a statistical characteristic is inadmissibly transferred to a level of aggregation lower than that which it actually describes.

(Dogmatic) Coherentism

A situation in which statements or beliefs are evaluated primarily based on whether they fit into an existing system of ideas, a worldview, or a narrative – rather than on whether they correspond to reality.

Categorisation

Continuum fallacy

The (erroneous) rejection of categorizations on the grounds that the variations described can also be described as a continuum.

Reasoning

Epistemic fallacy

The (wrong) assumtion that the existence of a thing or a situation automatically implies its knowledge or the possibility of knowing it.


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